Privy-seat



(No Model.)

G. 8a J- TURNBULL.

PEIVYSBAT. Nq. 334,491.. Patented Jan. 19, 1886.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE TURNBULL AND JOHN TURNBULL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PRlVY-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,491, datefi January19,1886.

Application filed April 16, 1885. Serial No. 162,495. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that we, GEORGE TURNBULL and JoHN TURNBULL, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inPrivy-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of devices in which means isemployed to prevent splitting and warping of the body of a privy orWater-closet seat; and our invention has for its object to provide acheap and efficient means whereby the expansion and contraction of theseat-will be compensated for and its splitting due to such causeprevented. We attain such object by the construction of partsillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is aperspective view of the usual form of privy-seat, to which ourimprovement is applied; Fig. 2, a detail end elevation of the same, andFig. 3, a detail section of same.

In seats for privies and water-closets heretofore employed the main bodyA of the seat was formed, preferably, of a single piece of wood, at eachend of which was nailed or otherwise secured cleats B, the grain ofwhichwas at a right angle to that of the main body A of the seat. A seat soconstructed was fatally defective, in that, owing to the differencesin'the degree of expansion and contraction of the parts, a splitting orwarping of the seat would in time take place and renderthe seat in mostinstances inconvenient or worthless. In the present improvement suchdifferences in the degree of expansion and contraction of the parts isprovided for by means of a series of elongated slots in the end cleats,through which pass the screws D, by which the cleats B are secured tothe main body A of the seat.

To reduce friction between the heads of such screws and the front of thecleats, metallic bushings Gare inserted in the cleats, as shown, so asto provide a metallic bearing-surface for the heads of said screws.These bushings are formed with elongated slots'e, of the same size asthose in the end cleats, B, and the edges of such slots are preferablybeveled or countersunk, as shown, to receive the countersunk heads ofthe screws D. By means of the improved construction above described themain body A,of the seat, carrying the cleat-attaching screws D, isallowed to have a free expansion and contraction due to variations ofmoisture and dryness to which the parts are exposed. 1

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a seat for privies, the combination of the body A, provided withscrews D, with the end cleats, B, provided with elongated slots to admitof a transverse movement of said screws within said cleats due to theexpansion and contraction of the main body A of the seat, essentially asset forth.

2. In a seat for privies, the combination of the body A. provided withscrews D, with the end cleats, B, having elongated slots that are 7provided with slotted metallic bushings G at their outer ends,essentially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof witness our hands this 4th day of April, 1885, atChicago, (Jock 7 county, Illinois.

GEORGE TURNBULL. JOHN TURNBULL.

